Tuesday, April 24, 2012

My Experience at Great Indian Developer Summit - 2012

This year the Great Indian Developer Summit was held at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Tata auditorium, my experiences...

GIDS 2012 – a great platform to get first insights of the upcoming trends and technologies!

This was my first experience at GIDS and I can say it was a rich learning experience, we were the delegates and the IISc campus with its lush green cover welcomed us.

I was accompanied by one of my teammates, we registered at the counter and received our welcome kits and went around all the exhibits and stalls put up by IT companies like Microsoft, Google, Goldman sachs, Nokia, Blackberry to name a few.

There were lot of sessions and presentations planned for the day, held in the main hall of the Tata auditorium and 4 other smaller halls. All the topics scheduled to be covered were of vast interest for me – the most exciting one being the Windows 8 and the metro style UI.

The key note of the day was on the Metro style UI, presented by a Microsoft India professional. This was amazing and set the tone for the entire day long events.

Highlight of the day for me was – I was interviewed by the Microsoft Team and the video will be posted on the Microsoft website. (I’m yet to get hold of the videoJ). I was asked about my experience of working on the Microsoft products and technologies.

We went around all the stalls and participated in few competitions and won some goodies too. After having attended many sessions, we were hungry and it was the lunch time, we feasted on the good foodJ.

Post lunch we attended other sessions and to sign off the day, all the delegates were given certificate of participation, shirts and watches as goodies, which was a pleasant surprise.

The sessions attended by me:

ü Evolution of C# - a departure from its roots

ü How frameworks can kill your projects and patterns to prevent getting killed.

ü Windows 8 platform for the metro style apps

ü Enhance developer productivity with Visual studio 2011 and .NET 4.5

ü Tips and best practices for windows phone development

ü ASP.NET MVC Razor and jQuery – the new face of ASP.NET

My next blog is on the topic – ASP.NET MVC Razor and jQuery

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